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Air Pressure and Plants


name         Jana
status       student
age          18

Question -   How does increased air pressure effect plant growth?
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Air pressure would affect the rates of photosynthesis, and in turn plant growth.  Please see a plant physiology text on diffusion coefficients and conductance as related to altitude, such as Park S. Nobel's
"Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology", Academic Press.

Anthony R. Brach, Ph.D.
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